The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group - UVTAGG (Formerly the Utah Valley PAF Users Group - UVPAFUG) will be on Saturday, 09 Nov 2013, from 9 am to noon in the LDS "Red Chapel", 4050 North Timpview Drive (650 East), Provo. Information about the Group, main presentations, classes, and class notes are available on their website http://uvtagg.org.
The main presentation this month will be by Timothy G. Cross of the FamilySearch Department of the LDS Church. His presentation is titled, THE LATEST AND GREATEST IN FAMILY TREE PHOTOS AND STORIES. Tim is currently responsible for FamilySearch Family Tree Photos and Stories which now includes Documents. Pictures and stories of our ancestors help us know them much more than just knowing their dates and places. For those who have uploaded scanned documents, e.g. birth certificates, into the Photos section, there is now an easy way to move them into the Documents section and that's probably the reason that the Documents section is with the Photos now. This is still in beta test, so we can hope that eventually the Documents section will be with the Sources section where you would expect to find it. The file size limit has also been increased recently for uploaded files and you can now upload pdf's (Portable Document Format). Family Tree has been making good strides from when it started a couple of years ago. Tim Cross graduated from BYU in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Management in the Business School and has worked as a Product Manager for FamilySearch for 9 years. Prior to working for the Church, Tim worked in the computer industry for PriceWaterhouse, Booz, Allen, & Hamilton, and for Novell. He and his family live in Mapleton, Utah.
After the main presentation the following classes are scheduled. Check the meetings page at http://uvtagg.org/ for last minute changes or additions.
(1) Are There Germans In Your Past?, by Laurie Castillo;
(2) Presenting and Preserving Your Family History: You Can't Take It With You, So How Do You Leave It?, by Don Snow;
(3) Q&A: The Latest and Greatest in FamilySearch Family Tree, by Tim Cross;
(4) Ask An Expert (Personal Help), by Don Engstrom, Finn Hansen, & Beth Ann Wiseman;
(5) Video of last month's main presentation: A Fanciful Genealogy or Clues to the Past, by Karen Clifford; (6) MAC: OS Mavericks Update and Evernote, by Ron Snowden;
(7) Ancestral Quest, by Benjamin Findlay;
(8) RootsMagic, by Bruce Buzbee; and
(9) Legacy, by Dean Bennett.
All meetings of UVTAGG are open to the public whether members of the Group or not. The Group has the goal of helping individuals use technology to further their family history and there are usually about 100 attending the monthly meetings on the second Saturdays.
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